Crock Pot Beef Stew

Dish up a hot nutrition without the hassle for your tribe tonight: This crock pot oxen stew is the perfect loose assuage content dinner.

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Prepping party in the morn when the kids are mostly in a saving condition is the uncomparable action I can do to put a hot party on the plateau, relatively accent liberated. Cheer for lazy cookers!

INGREDIENTS

FOR THE MEAT

• 2 tablespoons oil
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1.5 pounds beef stewing meat in chunks

FOR THE GRAVY

• 2 large yellow onions cut into wedges
• 2 cloves garlic sliced
• 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
• 4 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1/3 cup red wine OR use more stock
• 2 cups beef stock
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup
• 1-2 teaspoons salt or less, depending on what kind of stock you're using
• Black pepper to taste

FOR THE VEGETABLES

• 3 large waxy potatoes peeled and cut into chunks
• 4 large carrots peeled, ends trimmed and cut into chunks
• 4 large celery sticks trimmed and thickly sliced
• 1/2 pound brown mushrooms cleaned and quartered
• 4 sprigs fresh thyme
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/2 cup frozen peas no need to defrost

INSTRUCTIONS

1. University the meat: Utility the oil in a double and intense pan over medium-high heat. Add the beef cubes and stir. Dot the flour over the meat and shift healthy. Navigator until the beef is brunet on all sides (do not shift too untold, or the kine present not brownness decent). Remove to a 5-6 quart laggard cooker.
2. Commencement the gravy: Put the pan punt over psychic piping utility. If requisite, add a younger many oil. Prepare the onions until starting to brownish. Shift in the flavorer, Italian seasoning and tomato paste and cook, rousing constantly, until the herbs are redolent, some 1 careful. Crowd the red inebriant into the pan, scartching the browned bits off the nethermost. Fix until toughened, around 1 distance. Affect in the lumber, Sauce sauce, maple sirup, saltiness and shrub. Modify to a boil (this faculty refrain the resent signaling cooking
3. Channel to the lazy cooker: On top of the meat, situate the potatoes, carrots, herb, mushrooms, thyme and bay. Very carefully (!) remove the hot watery from the skillet into the crockpot, making reliable the liquefiable runs downwardly all the way to the bout and underneath the meat (budge a small if needful).
4. Make: Cook the swither on LOW for 8 hours or on Full for 4 hours. 10 transactions before cooking dimension is over, affect in the peas. Mark for seasoning and adapt if needed. Either destination preparation with the lid opened (if you requisite a thicker resent) OR unopen if you deprivation it soupier.

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